Shrubs, spreading, not scapose, 3.5-8(-10) × 5-10(-13) dm, grayish-tomentose, grayish. Stems spreading, usually without persistent leaf bases, sheathing up to 1/2 or more height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect to spreading, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.5-1.2 dm, tomentose. Leaves cauline, 1 per node; petiole 0.3-0.6 cm, tomentose; blade lanceolate to elliptic, 3-5 × 0.5-2 cm, densely silvery-tomentose on both surfaces or rarely less so to subglabrous and greenish abaxially, margins plane or slightly revolute, sometimes crenulate. Inflorescences cymose, often compact, (3-)6-14 × 3-10 dm; branches dichtomous, tomentose to subglabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, linear, and 1.5-3 mm, or leaflike, 10-15 mm, and similar to leaf blades. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate, 2.5-3 × 1.5-2 mm; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-1 mm. Flowers (2-)2.5-3.5 mm; perianth white to cream, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, essentially monomorphic, spatulate; stamens exserted, 1.5-4.5 mm; filaments glabrous or slightly pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous. 2n = 40.
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